Photos: PLA blows stuff up, plays games in Bohai Sea

The People’s Liberation Army has recently conducted its first joint live-fire exercise in quite a while. The official title is “Joint Operation-2013D,” but we prefer to call it “big explosions, lots of boats, and scare-the-Diaoyu-encroachers exercise 235346-F.” More than 5,000 soldiers and officers took part in the night drill, and everything went swimmingly, as these photos can attest.